Il 31/08/24 19:09, Michael ha scritto:
On Saturday, 31 August 2024 15:10:02 BST gevisz wrote:
I want to set up ZFS Event Daemon Notifications to be sent by ZED to
my user account locally.
It is said in ZFS Gentoo Wiki (see,
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS#ZFS_Event_Daemon_Notifications)
that to do this I have to set my email address in /etc/zfs/zed.d/zed.rc
However, I am afraid that it is not enough as I have not set up any
email client or server in my Gentoo box.
I have read in an Arch Wiki that to do this I have to install s-nail
and have done it.
However, again, I have found no instructions on how to set up the
s-nail for this very simple task
(take the message from ZFS Event Daemon and deliver it to a folder in
my home directory).
P.S. Alternatively, I would be satisfied if ZED will just log to some
file instead of sending emails.
Please, forgive me, if this question is stupid.
I expect any MTA would do the task of sending emails - but since you've
installed s-nail check the configuration examples offered here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S-nail
My understanding is that daemons (or shell scripts) do not access
directly the local mailbox, they have to go through an MTA. s-nail is a
mail client, not an MTA. The latter would be e.g. postfix, sendmail,
nullmailer.
I did not have success making the mail client (thunderbird in my case)
read from a local mailbox so I ended up configuring the MTA (nullmailer)
to forward the messages produced by my local daemons or shell scripts to
one of the external mail servers I already used for thunderbird.
I'm sure there is a more linear way so I'd be interested in the answer
to this not stupid question, email seems to be one of the more
complicated things to manage in linux.
raf
